1,188 research outputs found
Scaling properties of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
The scaling properties of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
are obtained from direct numerical simulations of decaying turbulence using
modes. The results indicate that the turbulence does not follow the
Iroshnikov-Kraichnan phenomenology.In the case of hyperresistivity, the
structure functions exhibit a clear scaling range yielding absolute values of
the scaling exponents . The scaling exponents agree with a modified
She-Leveque model , corresponding to Kolmogorov
scaling but sheet-like geometry of the dissipative structures
Recommended from our members
A Numerical Model to Estimate Fish Exposure to Elevated Temperature in McNary Dam
Statistical anisotropy of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Direct numerical simulations of decaying and forced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)
turbulence without and with mean magnetic field are analyzed by higher-order
two-point statistics. The turbulence exhibits statistical anisotropy with
respect to the direction of the local magnetic field even in the case of global
isotropy. A mean magnetic field reduces the parallel-field dynamics while in
the perpendicular direction a gradual transition towards two-dimensional MHD
turbulence is observed with inertial-range scaling of the
perpendicular energy spectrum. An intermittency model based on the Log-Poisson
approach, , is able to describe the observed
structure function scalings.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Phys.Rev.
Decay laws for three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Decay laws for three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence are obtained
from high-resolution numerical simulations using up to 512^3 modes...
Analysis of cancellation in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
A signed measure analysis of two-dimensional intermittent magnetohydrodynamic
turbulence is presented. This kind of analysis is performed to characterize the
scaling behavior of the sign-oscillating flow structures, and their geometrical
properties. In particular, it is observed that cancellations between positive
and negative contributions of the field inside structures, are inhibited for
scales smaller than the Taylor microscale, and stop near the dissipative scale.
Moreover, from a simple geometrical argument, the relationship between the
cancellation exponent and the typical fractal dimension of the structures in
the flow is obtained.Comment: 21 pages, 5 figures (3 .jpg not included in the latex file
Depletion of nonlinearity in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence: insights from analysis and simulations
Current-sheet formation in incompressible electron magnetohydrodynamics
The nonlinear dynamics of axisymmetric, as well as helical, frozen-in vortex
structures is investigated by the Hamiltonian method in the framework of ideal
incompressible electron magnetohydrodynamics. For description of current-sheet
formation from a smooth initial magnetic field, local and nonlocal nonlinear
approximations are introduced and partially analyzed that are generalizations
of the previously known exactly solvable local model neglecting electron
inertia. Finally, estimations are made that predict finite-time singularity
formation for a class of hydrodynamic models intermediate between that local
model and the Eulerian hydrodynamics.Comment: REVTEX4, 5 pages, no figures. Introduction rewritten, new material
and references adde
Depletion of Nonlinearity in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence: Insights from Analysis and Simulations
We build on recent developments in the study of fluid turbulence [Gibbon
\textit{et al.} Nonlinearity 27, 2605 (2014)] to define suitably scaled,
order- moments, , of , where
and are, respectively, the vorticity and current density in
three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We show by mathematical analysis,
for unit magnetic Prandtl number , how these moments can be used to
identify three possible regimes for solutions of the MHD equations; these
regimes are specified by inequalities for and . We then
compare our mathematical results with those from our direct numerical
simulations (DNSs) and thus demonstrate that 3D MHD turbulence is like its
fluid-turbulence counterpart insofar as all solutions, which we have
investigated, remain in \textit{only one of these regimes}; this regime has
depleted nonlinearity. We examine the implications of our results for the
exponents that characterize the power-law dependences of the energy
spectra on the wave number , in the inertial range of
scales. We also comment on (a) the generalization of our results to the case
and (b) the relation between and the order- moments
of gradients of hydrodynamic fields, which are used in characterizing
intermittency in turbulent flows.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figure
Using multi-level Petri nets models to simulate microbiota resistance to antibiotics
The spread of antibiotic resistance is a growing problem known to be caused by antibiotic usage itself. This problem can be analyzed at different levels. Antibiotic administration policies and practices affect the societal system, which is made by human individuals and by their relations. Individuals developing resistance interact with each other and with the environment while receiving antibiotic treatments moving the problem at a different level of analysis. Each individual can be further see as a meta-organism together with his associated microbiotas, which prove to have a prominent role in the resistance spreading dynamics. Eventually, in each microbiota, population dynamics and vertical or horizontal transfer events implement cellular and molecular mechanisms for resistance spreading and possibly for its prevention. Using the Nets-within-nets formalism, in this work we model the relation between different antibiotic administration protocols and resistance spread dynamics both at the human population and at the single microbiota level
Evidence for acoustic-like plasmons on epitaxial graphene on Pt(111)
The dispersion and the damping of the sheet plasmon in a graphene monolayer grown on Pt(111) have been studied by using angle-resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy. We found that the dispersion relation of the plasmon mode confined in the graphene sheet is linear, as a consequence of the screening by the metal substrate. Present results demonstrate that the presence of an underlying metal substrate could have striking consequences on the plasmon propagation even in the case of a system which exhibits a weak graphene-substrate interaction. Moreover, we found that Landau damping essentially occurs via interband excitations starting above the Fermi wave vector. On the contrary, intraband transitions do not have a significant influence on the collective mod
- …